ITNE2002 Assignment 2: Smartphone Security Analysis

This report, prepared for ITNE2002 Network and Information Security, examines the critical aspects of smartphone security. It begins by highlighting the increasing importance of mobile security in modern computing. The report identifies several key security threats, including botnets, malicious attacks, spyware, data breaches, and DOS attacks, providing detailed explanations of each. It then explores various mitigation tools and techniques to enhance smartphone security, such as strong passwords, biometric recognition, SIM card locks, protection of sensitive data, blocking spam and fraud, antivirus software, and the use of authentic applications. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of user awareness and the adoption of robust security practices to protect personal information and ensure safe smartphone usage. The references cited provide further context to the analysis.

Smart phones
security

Introduction
• Mobile security has become increasingly important in the field
of mobile computing
• In this modern era, the security of mobile phones is one of the
biggest issue faced by users.
• The aim of this presentation is to analysis the security-related
issues of smartphones and mitigation tools to reduce such a
problem.

Smart phones security issues
• There are numerous kinds of security threats and issues occur
in the smart phones which are following:
• Botnet
• Malicious attack
• Spyware
• Data breach
• DOS attack (Allam, Flowerday, and Flowerday, 2014).

Smart phones security issues
• Botnet:
• It is a hacking technology which is used by the attackers to
identify the personal details of the users mobile phones
• In which hackers mainly detect the passwords of the user’s
mobile phones
• Malicious attack:
• Malicious is defined as the software which is used by the criminal
to produce a large number of viruses and traffic signals
• Hackers transfer the spam and viruses on users mobile device to
reduce the performance of their servers and enter into their
smartphones

Smartphones security issues
• Spyware:
• Such kind of technique is used by the attackers to hijack the
smartphones of the consumers.
• It has the potential to control and detect the text messages and
calls of the users (Zonouz, et al., 2013).
• It also allows hackers to track the personal data of consumers and
their location Data Breach:
• It is very common security threat occur in the smart phones
• When users use the unwanted links and third party applications
they can suffer from the data breach related issues.

Smart phones security issues
• DOS attack:
• It is defined as the denial of service attack which is occurred due
to the use of spam and unauthentic servers.
• In which attackers first generate a huge amount of traffic signals
and transfer to the user's networks.
• Hackers enter into the user's smartphones with the help of
internet connectivity's and block their personal information.

Methods to improve smartphones security
• There are various technologies and tools which can be used to
improve security of the smartphones which are following:
• Use strong password rather than simple
• Adopt the biometric recognition tools like fingerprint and eye
recognition
• Use a SIM card lock
• Protect sensitive data from hackers
• Block spam and fraud mails
• Protect internet connectivity by using antivirus

Methods to improve smartphones security
• Download and use only configured and authentic applications
(Ho, et al., 2015).
• Turn off location if they users are not using
• Use backup plans to secure the more important data from
hackers
• Use application lock tools to protect data from criminal

Conclusion
• This presentation is completely based on the smartphones
security and readers can enhance their skills in the field of
mobile security
• This presentation described the different types of security
threats and issues occur in the mobile phones and mitigation
tools
• Users should ensure that they use only authentic networks
and block fraud mails from smartphone

References
• Allam, S., Flowerday, S.V. and Flowerday, E., (2014)
Smartphone information security awareness: A victim of
operational pressures. Computers & Security, 42(2), pp.56-65.
• Zonouz, S., Houmansadr, A., Berthier, R., Borisov, N. and
Sanders, W., (2013) Secloud: A cloud-based comprehensive
and lightweight security solution for smartphones. Computers
& Security, 37(4), pp.215-227.
• Ho, F., Wang, C.N., Ho, C.T., Chiang, Y.C. and Huang, Y.F., (2015)
Evaluation of Smartphone feature preference by a modified
AHP approach. In Industrial Engineering and Engineering
Management (IEEM), 2015 IEEE International Conference on,
6(2), pp. 591-594.